Halloween: A Perverts Paradise! Children are not a "treat" you "trick".

Halloween should be one of the most exciting times of the year. Instead, for some parents it is scary. Although there are registered sex offenders, how will the parents without internet access know of them? We should dress our children in bright colors and walk closely behind them so we can see them. We need to make this holiday as fun and safe as possible but even with these precautions
there are the 364 days we have to worry about.

There should be some type of way we can publicly access these addresses without causing embarrassment to the offenders yet allowing parents to know what type of neighborhoods they are walking through. Good news is that there are places like Russel County, Alabama that are doing round-ups for sex offenders and if they do not show up for a mandatory meeting they will be charged for violating probation and given jail time. Another place like this is California where they have set up "transient sex-offender roundup centers" at parole offices. Other cities should take precautions like this and we need more funding to have things like this in place.

Another thing to do is to dress your child in bright colors and stay close by. There are a lot of things kids want to dress up like so we need to keep them in bright colors, fit shoes, and no blankets for ghosts. We need to stay close behind and there should be more than one parent walking with a group of kids.The groups should be big so that the kids can have fun and see all their friends and still be safe. A study by SafeKids.org shows that twice as many children are killed on Halloween than any other day of the year. This is because people can not see kids when they are driving and there are people who prey on little kids. I understand that there are sex offenders everywhere around us everyday and they break into our houses and prey on our kids but if we know there are things we can do we need to do them.

Halloween should be a safe and fun time for kids and always remember the freaks come out at night so be aware.


Sources: http://www.safekids.org/safety-basics/safety-spotlight/halloween-safety/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-20126599/alabama-to-round-up-sex-offenders-on-halloween/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/29/california-sex-offenders-_n_1065204.html